Chartered psychologist specialising in consumer behaviour, wellbeing and technology. University lecturer (UAL) and head of Digital Insight at WPP agency SYZYGY.
A brand without trust is a productAdvertising without trust is noiseTechnology without trust is obsolete Do you trust your bank? Trust is key to wellbeing, especially when it comes to money. Without trust there is stress, anxiety and sometimes even...
This week Google is launching five new digital wellbeing apps for android devices designed to help people find the right balance of technology in their lives. These open source apps are available on Google Play for consumers, and on Google’s...
Do you sleep with your mobile device? 29% of US teens now keep their mobile device in bed with them as they sleep (33% female, 26% for males). 62% of parents sleep with their device in reach of their bed. Two findings from the new report “The...
Apple’s rebranding as a privacy-first company continued this week its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Jose. At the event, Apple announced a new ‘Sign In with Apple‘ system to promote the safety, privacy and...
A new study by the American Psychiatric Association has found that over one in three US adults believe social media is impacting mental health in a negative way. Top findings of the national survey (n = 1,005, margin of error +/-3.1 percentage...
This week’s presentation by the Center for Humane Tech included some headline-grabbing stats, and a few great quotes, transcribed and source-checked here. 150. Number of times Millennials check their phone per day (Qualtrics and Accel, 2016)...
The Center for Humane Technology has just unveiled its new vision for technology to an audience of tech luminaries in San Francisco’s SFJAZZ Center. A culmination of six years of work, the ambitious agenda is to realign technology with human...
A new large-scale randomised controlled trial (RCT) has been run to assess the effects of taking a four-week break from Facebook. RCTs are typically used in clinical trials to assess the efficacy and safety of drugs and therapy. For Facebook...
Today the United Kingdom Chief Medical Officers (CMO) have released new evidence-based guidelines on screentime and social media for children and young people (CYP). The full guidelines can be downloaded here, and a summary infographic in jpg and...
If you were in any doubt about the growing importance of wellbeing, today’s $1bn valuation of the popular wellbeing app Calm should give you pause for thought. Already the poster-child of Apple’s top app trend of the year, Calm today...
Check out your social media feed, and you’ll probably see people ‘virtue signalling‘ in one of three key areas ‘Reaching‘ – people displaying wealth, education or success‘Related‘ – people...
“I have no doubt that Instagram helped kill my daughter”. These are the words of father Ian Russell in the news this week. Ian Russell is the parent of the 14-year-old UK schoolgirl Molly Rose Russell, who recently took her own life...
